Team Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship:
• Lead and mentor a team of developers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Provide technical guidance to team members and ensure that best practices are followed throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Conduct regular code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality and adherence to standards.
• Assist with the resolution of complex technical issues, helping the team navigate challenges and obstacles.

Architecture & Design:

• Collaborate with Solution Architects, product managers, and other stakeholders to design scalable, secure, and efficient technical solutions.
• Take ownership of technical designs, ensuring they are aligned with business goals, system requirements, and technical constraints.
• Ensure that the team is following established architecture and design patterns, while also exploring opportunities for optimization and innovation.

Project Delivery:

• Oversee the technical execution of projects, ensuring tasks are delivered on time, within scope, and to a high standard of quality.
• Act as a point of escalation for technical challenges, providing solutions and coordinating with other departments to ensure successful project delivery.
• Work with the project management team to estimate timelines, prioritize tasks, and ensure that the development process is well-organized and efficient.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Serve as a key liaison between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring that requirements, constraints, and progress are clearly communicated.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams including business analysts, QA, operations, and product managers to ensure seamless project execution.

• Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, ensuring alignment across teams and helping to drive agile best practices.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for process improvement, ensuring that the team follows agile best practices and continuously improves development workflows.
• Encourage innovation, driving the team to explore new tools, frameworks, and technologies to improve product performance and scalability.
• Promote a culture of learning and development by encouraging the team to pursue new skills, technologies, and certifications.

Quality Assurance & Testing:

• Ensure that the development team follows testing practices such as unit testing, integration testing, and automated testing.
• Help drive quality throughout the development lifecycle by ensuring the team maintains high standards of code quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with the QA team to ensure proper testing coverage and timely resolution of bugs.

Qualifications:

• Education:

Desired

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS, Azure, Scrum Master) are a plus.

Experience:

• 8-10 years of experience in software development, with at least 8 years in a leadership or senior developer role.
• Proven experience leading development teams in a technical capacity, preferably in an Agile environment.
• Strong experience with software design and architecture, and deep knowledge of programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, C#, JavaScript, etc.).

Technical Skills:

• Proficient in web development frameworks, databases (SQL, NoSQL), cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong understanding of version control (e.g., Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello).

Desired Skills:

• Experience with cloud-native application architectures.
• Familiarity with microservices, event-driven architectures, and serverless computing. Experience with API design and integration (RESTful APIs,).
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).